With 26 career goals, 25 of which came in a Dundee United shirt, £1.5m sounds a tad generous for Nadir Ciftci. Celtic’s earlier offer of £900k sounds more like the mark but Wigan have validated United’s target price with a deal with meets their requirements, if not that of the player’s.
Is he a player to improve Celtic? Quite possibly, he’ll bring something we don’t have at the moment – a sticky out ball – but it’s a big ask to expect him to step up to Champions League levels. Signing that level of player might take Champions League money, but we’ll need to get there first, which is why we need to bolster the attack quickish.
Two years ago we talked about the number of senior games a good player is able to make before he’s noticed by those to rich and lazy to do as much low-level research Celtic must do to unearth a gem.
Victor Wanyama made 51 appearances before becoming a Celtic player, Virgil van Dijk made 62. It’s likely both spent the bulk of those games without anyone paying much attention to them, Celtic’s scouts are likely to have been alerted when they have little more than a dozen or so games left at their previous clubs.
Ciftci’s made 67 senior appearances. If he has what it takes, the world will know about it sooner rather than later.
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Sipsini
It’s not a bad movie but it uses a bit of poetic licence as all movies do.
I enjoyed it, difficult to be objective about a movie when you are familiar with the story. Certainly portrayed gilligan as the cowardly thug he is
CANAMALAR
Kannsas to Denver is a hop skip and a jump
In comparative terms,btw.
600 miles,not 200. But I doubt he’ll be going via Virginrail. Nae time ataw.
HT
This optimistic Tim lives Celtic in Green Haze.
Drop in the Caledonian pre or post match on Friday. Getting a wee CQN gathering going. :)
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
Thanks for that. Actually, I’m heading to a few places on a RTW Trip
More than likely at this stage
LA
NYC
Kansas
Donegal
Glasgow
Toulouse
Paris
Dortmund
Berlin
5 minute walk over the hill
Wits,
I just watched it as I seen it, my daughters boyfriend had the same opinion of yourself, coming from Ireland and knowing more of the background to the real story he had more of roots than I did.
TAL
Sounds heavenly.
Jealousy is a sin, so I am happy for you. :))
Anyways, sitting tonight remembering the man who made any of the good in me. He’d have been 72 today.
My Catholic faith, Celtic, Socialism, my love of family and the importance of rebellion against any injustice. Thanks da x
Please don’t comment it just clutters the blog, just take a swallie, he’d appreciate that.
Cheers oops is that a comment :)
HT
Irn bru swallied.
God bless.
Hail hail yer da
I’ll drink to his legacy
canamalar…
Watch out for the mole hills, ye know what it did to the last guy with a humph.;)
Wits,
There is still a lot of violence going around Giligan
Don’t get involved.
HH
sips..,
Whit is it Wei you n humph in :)
Wow, just seen SSN’s article on the new England rugby shirt for the Rugby World Cup.
Good grief, that’s the gayest feckin’ top I’ve ever seen.
Does it get any gayer?
It’s a classic. Enter the park oiled up to pounding techno with a gyrating Jimmy Somerville providing the tremelo and Julian Clary frothing up the cheerleaders.
BedtimeLOLCSC
BMCUW,
Less if you’ve got yer ruby slippers on :)
VINTAGE67
Any chance of slipping me into yer holdall?
Sounds like a great trip. I hope you have a great time.
JealousCSC
What to wear going to Kansas, ruby slippers or virginrail ?
Oh it’s always the same, does my bum look big in this virginrail ?
canamalar..
Only joshing, keep up the posting, your an education. HH
Bobby,
I knew I was wide open as soon as I hit post :-)
DD
I’ll owe ye wan mate.
Bobby
Ach well, 20 years married, she deserves it (or is me) :-)
sips..,
Case study, surly :)
TAL
Would love to meet you for a couple of laced coffees. :))
VINTAGE67
Congratulations,mate. I was speaking to a friend of long-standing yesterday. Gets married on Saturday. She canny wait. I hope in twenty years time she and you are celebrating anniversaries.
Canalamar
So while I took the destroy rangers element out of it and made it into a sporting integrity issue, you did not want to argue on that basis and got all pragmatic on us as if accepting corruption was the only reasonable way to go for the board.
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Ah clarity!
It wasn’t that I didn’t want to argue on the sporting integrity basis, its just that I did not realise that is what you meant when you said in response to my question to Quonno when I asked
“Name one thing Celtic have done on their own that was in their power to do to have stopped how RFC were treated on going bust?”
and you said
“Questioned the secret five way agreement. ”
that you had introduced the sporting integrity element of the 5 Way into the debate rather than the enabling element of the 5 Way which was consistent with the prior context.
Thus I continued on the pragmatic line rather on the principle of sporting integrity.
I had a feeling I was missing something as my view and indeed actions on the absolute necessity for the latter are well documented.
Pragmatically I can understand how it all came about but sporting integrity, in fact just plain old integrity, could have been upheld had the authorities dealt honestly with events and not given them the special treatment that I think was afforded to them when they were granted Full Membership of the SFA under the discretionary powers that the authorities used, rather than follow the normal route for a new club entering the SFL which was to apply for Associate Membership of the SFA and wait 4 or 5 years to become a Full Member.
That particular sore will never heal unless they eat themselves again and disappear off the football map.
Did Celtic question that element ? It depends on the process under which the agreement was arrived at, but somebody must have raised the issue of Full SFA Membership. Was it offered or was it a condition of Sevco taking over that the SFA/SPL/SFL felt they had to accept?
We would need to know more, which is probably why the 5 Way is so secret.
Thanks Bobby
One of these days brother…..I keep threatening to attend one of Bobby’s Do’s.
Maybe Dublin 2016?…..Would be ma pleasure.
HH
Auldheid,
That’s better :)
But it still does not excuse the board for not objecting to the corruption publicly as soon as they were aware it was being perpetrated.
Keeping the supporters and shareholders in the dark is wrong
TEUCHTERARLA
Ya tease…
BMCUWP
Aye a know mate, but seriously if I’m ever home at the time I will make it a priority……honest.
I knew you were teasing me earlier, Somehow, I couldn’t see you waiting that long for someone to send you over a drink:-)
Auldheid,
Rangers cheated. When my late father saved up for a Season Ticket, they cheated.
Put the team on the park and let’s see what they can do.
canamalar…
Sometimes, you can be an argumentive bassa, most times I find you informative and cheeky you say what I want to say but i can’t put it in words together the way you do.
Keep up the fight.
TEUCHTERARLA
I’ve waited longer than that wi some so called friends,believe me…
Doncaster , Reconstruction i the only way to save Scottish Football or in otherwards get the Huns in the SPL Pronto
http://www.heraldscotland.com/mobile/sport/football/neil-doncaster-suggests-spfl-restructure-may-be-only-way-forward.131193397?utm_source=www.heraldscotland.com&utm_medium=RSS%2520Feed&utm_campaign=Scottish%2520Sports%2520News&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter …
Sips.,
Only sometimes :(
I suppose I’m sober sometimes too so it all balances itself out :)
Sober and balance. Two words I never thought to read from CANAMALAR.
MURDOCHAULDANDHAY
They are continuing to do their best,but it matters not one jot.
The Huns are deid. Ding dong,dance on the grave,laugh at the attempts to resuscitate a corpse.
Triggers Broom and a Norwegian Blue,all in one laffaminit package.